Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:00
Orome1 writes “Sixty-one percent of Americans said the President should have the ability to shut down portions of the Internet in the event of a coordinated malicious cyber attack, according to research by Unisys. The survey found that while Americans
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Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us
Last Updated on Thursday, 2 September 2010 10:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 2 September 2010 10:00
sanermind writes “Sensing Senators don’t have the stomach to try and pass a stand-alone bill in broad daylight that would give the President the power to shut down the Internet in a national emergency, the Senate is considering attaching the Internet
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Internet’s inventor tackles wartime innovations (photos)
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:40
Latest Photo Galleries CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–In the 1960s, BBN Technologies, a research and development company here in this town dominated by MIT and Harvard, created the packet switch and ARPANET, and arguably got the Internet Age under way. Over the
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Sen. Bond Disses Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Bill
Last Updated on Monday, 28 June 2010 01:20 Written by External Post Monday, 28 June 2010 01:20
GovTechGuy writes ‘Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) has introduced his own cybersecurity legislation with Sen. Orrin Hatch, and he had some harsh words for a competing bill sponsored by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. Bond said that bill, which has been
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Say No To a Government Internet ‘Kill Switch’
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 June 2010 06:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 24 June 2010 06:21
GMGruman writes ‘In the name of national security, the feds are considering a law that would let the government turn off the Internet or at least order broadband providers and ISPs to disable access. InfoWorld blogger Bill Snyder explains why this is a
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Say no to a government ‘kill switch’ for the Internet
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 June 2010 06:20 Written by External Post Thursday, 24 June 2010 06:20
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Facebook screams at users: ‘Sort your privacy. NOW’
Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:15 Written by External Post Wednesday, 9 December 2009 09:15
Facebook has ordered its 350 million users to sort out their privacy settings right now, before it throws the switch on its revamped security system. The social networker farmer in chief Mark Zuckerberg, told its users last week that, ‘We’re adding
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